Arthur Harrison Bushby

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• Military Service: Arthur Harrison BUSHBY Regimental number: 6236 Date of birth: 8 October 1896 Place of birth: Glebe, New South Wales School: Marrickville West Superior Public School, New South Wales Religion: Methodist Occupation: Dye maker Address: Carlyle, Hill Street, Marrickville, New South Wales Marital status: Single Age at embarkation: 19 Next of kin: Father, H Bushby, Carlyle, Hill Street, Marrickville, New South Wales Previous military service: Served in the Compulsory Military Training scheme, Sydney, New South Wales. Enlistment date: 17 March 1916 Rank on enlistment: Private Unit name: 3rd Battalion, 20th Reinforcement AWM Embarkation Roll number: 23/20/3 Embarkation details: Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A14 Euripides on 9 September 1916 Rank from Nominal Roll: Private Unit from Nominal Roll: 3rd Battalion Fate: Killed in Action 20 September 1917 Miscellaneous details (Nominal Roll): Lewis gunner at the time of his death Place of death or wounding: NE of Ypres, Belgium Age at death: 20 Age at death from cemetery records: 20 Place of burial:No known grave Commemoration details: The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 7), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial 35 Miscellaneous information from cemetery records Parents: Harrison and Mary BUSHBY, 'Carlisle', Hill Street, Marrickville, New South Wales. Native of Sydney Family/military connections Cousins: 11 Corporal Francis Anthony ANGELINETTA 36th Bn, killed in action, 22 January 1917; Pte R. BRADY [cannot be further identified]; 4162 Pte Harold Sydney BUSHBY, 11th Bn, killed in action, Messines Ridge, Belgium, 26 January 1918. Other details: War service: Western Front Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal. http://www.aif.adfa.edu.au:8080/showPerson?pid=41098 See also Commonwealth War Graves Commission website: http://www.cwgc.org/search/certificate.aspx?casualty=1598067